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23 Days to Health

Cleanse, Detox & Rebuild Your Body

From the Inside Outby Alison B. Ader

Traditional Doctor of Naturopathy

with Robin D. Ader, M.S.



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About the Author

Alison Ader has been a healthcare provider and healer since1980. Having completed her two-year training as a Respiratory Therapist, she attained the higher certification of RegisteredRespiratory Therapist (RRT) after another year’s study andboard certification. She spent seven years at Miami’s JacksonMemorial Hospital a major teaching and community medicalfacility where she plied her skills in the ER and Trauma Room.

It was during that time that she suffered a major medicalcondition of her own, which her colleagues could not diagnose

or treat, but caused her to suffer periodic Grand Mal seizures.Alison started a course of personal study and found the root source of her illness. Dealing withdisease from the cause and not the symptom became her obsession. Within ten years she hadachieved mastery in Herbology, Aromatherapy, Iridology, become a licensed massage therapistin the State of Florida, and earned her certificate as a Traditional Doctor of Naturopathy.

Alison’s current practice in Marietta, Georgia, Natural Health Options, Inc. [www.NatOpt.com]specializes in helping people with chronic conditions where traditional—allopathic—medicinehas proved ineffective. She gives frequent lectures, the most often asked for being her“Women’s18 to 80Hormone Workshop.” She is also a Metabolic Type Advisor.

This treatise on healthy eating choices, self-monitoring, and the importance of periodic cleansingof the body has long been a passion. “I’d like to have fewer patients and more time to spendwith my child,” Alison says, “If only people would just take a little more personal responsibility,medical care in this country would be reduced at least by half.”

This e-book is being offered at no cost so that all those who are receptive to the premise of personal responsibility may benefit from its wisdom.





Disclaimer

The information presented in this book is provided for informational and educational purposesonly, and should not be considered as medical advice, whether towards diagnosis or treatment of a health issue, weight problem or disease, or for prescribing medication. This program is notintended to heal you of serious illness or injury. If you have, or feel you may have, a medicalproblem, contact your allopathic or homeopathic physician or other qualified health careprovider. The authors, their agents, publishers and distributors of this text assume no

responsibility for how the information provided here is used. It’s always advisable for you toseek any outside assistance you may need at any time during the exercise of this diet. Thisincludes, but is not limited to, mental or therapeutic assistance, if the release of the toxins, heavymetals and contaminants in your body are more than you can deal with on your own. It is ourhope that you can fully benefit from the application of the information contained herein. We dorecommend that you never do anything that causes you pain or discomfort. As with any courseof study, we recommend that you use what seems helpful and you discard the rest.





Table of Contents

PREFACE………………………………………………………………………………

CHAPTER ONE – Five Years Ago & Five Years from Now ………………………...

CHAPTER TWO – What is Health? …………………………………………………..

CHAPTER THREE – The First Step in Achieving Health: TENACIT Y………………

CHAPTER FOUR – What are Toxins? ……………………………………………….

CHAPTER FIVE – Organic Foods ……………………………………………………

CHAPTER SIX –Pee, Poop and Passing Gas …………………………………………

CHAPTER SEVEN –Detoxification, Nutrition, and Weight Los …………………….

CHAPTER EIGHT – Preparing for Detoxification …………………………………..

CHAPTER NINE – Find Someone Who Knows What She/He is Doing ……………

CHAPTER TEN – C D R …………………………………………………………….

CHAPTER ELEVEN – Catching your breath ……………………………………….

CHAPTER TWELVE – The Healing Crisis …………………………………………

CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Conclusion ……………………………………………….

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..…………………………………………………………..

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PREFACE

This book is not about weight-loss. It is about getting healthy, and it has been

demonstrated over the years, that when one chooses health, the weight comes off as a natural by-

product of a healthy lifestyle.

This book is not politically correct. Some of you are fat and we’re going to call you fat.

Some of you are lazy and we’re going to call you lazy. If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the

kitchen, but, then again, if you could stay out of the kitchen you wouldn’t need this book, would

you?

This book is a practical in-your-face guide to attaining health, losing weight and

improving your quality of life. It is not intended to be a scientific exposé, and consequently, it is

small, direct, and to-the-point. Where easy to read, consumer-oriented references are available,

relative to the topic at hand, these are presented should you wish more information. However,

you are admonished not to seek these out until after following the step-by-step instructions in

this book and implementingandadhering to the health rules as instructed herein.





Please note that while we, the authors, do have considerable scientific and medical

training, we do not present any information here as medical instruction or advice. We do not

know you and cannot, therefore, diagnose you. Before going on a diet—this or any other—you

should seek the counsel of your family physician and/or medical specialists. Certainly, do not

change the course of any ongoing medication or treatment, related or unrelated to your weight,

without speaking with the prescribing physician.

That being said, you will find the steps to health, revealed in these pages, easy to follow,

physically satisfying, and most often not in conflict with your current health status. You are not

challenged to perform any unrealistic act. The entire course of the first regimen is just twenty-

three days in which time you will be called upon to adjust your intake of specific foods, get some

level of easy, stress-free physical activity, and change your mindset.

READ THIS ENTIRE BOOK THROUGH BEFORE

STARTING ANY PART OF THIS PATH-TO-HEALTH GUIDE!

This is the very first step of your 23 Days to Health. Throughout this book we endeavor

tokeep it simple! Do you have the Will-Power, the patience and the fortitude to first read

everything in this tiny little book? Or are you going to jump in blind, like you have with the last

dozen diets you’ve tried, without fully understanding the principles set forth? And then fail!

You must make a contract with yourself and enforceevery clausein this contract to attain

health. If you fail to maintain your commitment to every item, then the entire contract is null and

void and you will remain unhealthy; you will not lose weight.





When you have finished reading this entire book, and decide that you are ready to make

concessions to eliminate self-destructive behavior, you will find additional information for your

benefit supplied on our web site at http://NatOpt.com

Access to the web site is not necessary to your success. Understanding this book is.

Our wishes are with you for the best of luck in achieving optimum results with this step-by-step

guide to health. But, candidly, neither our wishes nor luck have anything to do with it. It is

YOU who have complete control over the qualityand quantityof your life.

ABARoswell, GA

September 2007





CHAPTER ONE – Five Years Ago & Five Years from Now

What is overweight? It’s not what the scale indicates. It’s the extra roll of fat around

your stomach, the jiggle in your thighs, and your second—or third—chin. Large, non-fat people,

like some professional football players and members of Olympic teams in some sports, just look

big, but you wouldn’t call them fat. If you refer to an insurance company, actuarial chart of

“healthy” height vs. weight, these athletes would be classified as obese! We know they are not.

So pay less attention to the scaleas an absolute measure of your fat-ness, and use it just as a

barometer of weight loss—to keep track of where you are compared to where you started.

You may be ten, twenty-five or fifty pounds overweight, or more. Make losing that

amount of weight your long-term goal. You have accumulated your fat over the course of years;

you have not acquired it overnight. Do not expect to lose it overnight either.

Which brings us to…

Health Rule #1: It is not healthy to lose considerable amounts of fat-weight too quickly.





Rapid weight loss almost always results in rebound weight gain which, in too many

cases, over-shoots your original weight and leaves you worse off—fatter—than you began.

Further, toxins accumulate in the body, often in fat tissue. We’ll discuss this in much more detail

later, but losing fat-weight too quickly pours these toxins into your system where they can cause

sudden onset of disease. You should not lose weight any faster than your body can reasonably

eliminate these toxins. Makes sense doesn’t it?

As a reminder, this is a book about health that results in weight loss, so you must strive to

become healthy, not skinny. The objective is to deal with the root-cause of your fat, not with the

fat. For example, how do you get rid of that annoying sound that your car engine is making?

Turn the radio up real loud, right? Wrong. You deal with the root-cause of the noise, because if

you don’t, you will likely have a large scale, mechanical break-down. In turn, this will require

massive repairs. Or even worse, you will be forced to buy a new car before you are financially

comfortable to do so, which will cause any number of other problems in your life. Get the

analogy?

If you ignore the root-cause of your weight gain, and just treat the fat as a free-standing,

independent issue, then you won’t be addressing the health-cause of your fat. This can

ultimately lead to massive mechanical failure of your heart or other organ systems. Even with

insurance, the financial burden is equally massive. Should money not be an issue for you,

consider the stress on your family which can result in affecting their health. Ultimately, you

could die prematurely. Look at the word “pre-maturely,” which means, before you’ve reached

your full maturity and potential, and for a person to do that to him or her self is unconscionable.

Health Rule #2: Don’t live by the numbers





If you feel you must lose twenty-five pounds, the first question we’d ask you is:How do

you know you must lose twenty-five pounds? Perhaps twenty would be enough to make you look

and feel as you’d like—maybe it’s thirty. “Pounds” look different from one person to another

and, logically, a pound looks different on a person six-foot tall person than it does on a person

five-foot tall.

Let’s not forget all theinternal fat you’ve accumulated around your organs, including

your heart, which is far more important to eliminate than your chubby thighs. You still have a

chance to find the love-of-your-life with fat thighs. You have no chance if you’re dead.

So don’t live by the numbers or by your waist size. When you begin to lose weight, you

will see some difference in the way your clothes fit, to be sure, and you’ll be encouraged. You

may not see as much of a difference in your clothes as you’d like, and as your scale would

indicate, when using the Health-First-Weight-Loss-Second program. Don’t be discouraged. If

you have engaged in some mild exercise, as discussed in a later chapter, you will be losing

internal fat—the far more important fat to eliminate—before you drop to a size 2.

Now let’s discuss the topic indicated by the title of this chapter.

How long has it been since you were at the weight you wish to be now? Some of you

might answer that you’ve always been fat, or perhaps your weight gain has been gradual over

years or even decades. Have you considered yourself “fat” for two years? Five years? Ten

years?

Five Years Ago: As an example, let’s consider five years as your answer and twenty-five

pounds as the amount of “overage” you wish to reduce… we want to keep the arithmetic simple.

Starting five years ago, could you have taken some action to make small, temporary

changes in your eating and exercise habits in the course of the year that would have returned you





to your January 1st weight by December 31st of each of those five years? Obviously, YES, you

could have. But you didn’t. Why not? We’ll discuss that in a subsequent chapter as well.

Five Years from Now: Are you going to be wishing you had followed the step-by-step

guidelines in that stupid little book you read five years before, so that you wouldn’t be carrying

around fifty pounds of fat?





CHAPTER TWO – What is Health?

Have you ever seen a teenager in the mall or on the street with a Mohawk hairstyle died

purple and green? Do you have a teenager with a Mohawk hairstyle died purple and green?

When confronted with this sight, many people, of the middle-class-American demographic, go

immediately into judgment mode. What’s he trying to prove? Who does he think he’s

impressing? Fact is, if you embrace the values codified in the Constitution of the United States,

as we do—regardless of how ridiculous the hairstyle really is—you have to accept that each

person in this country, and many others around the world, are guaranteed their freedom to select

their preference of fashion in hairstyle and clothing. The kind of car you drive, the home in

which you live, including its furnishings, the music, books and TV shows you enjoy, are all a

matter of choice. (We’re looking at the generality, notphysically harmful exceptions.)

If you’re reading this book, then, unless you’re reading for the benefit of someone else

(yeah, right, you’ve got a “friend” that needs to lose weight), we’re going to assume that you

have made one additional choice in your life: the choicenot to be healthy.





Killing yourself instantaneously with a bullet in the head is illegal. If you try and fail you

can be arrested when you get out of the hospital. However, there is no law against killing

yourself slowly over the course of years—by digging your own grave with a fork! As a matter of

demonstrable fact, big business in concert with government has encouraged poor eating habits

for more than half a century. Government agencies have played around with the food “pyramid”

more than a bipolar pharaoh.

Health, hygiene, and peaceable social interaction with others are not optional lifestyle

choices. These are the fundamentals of participating productively in civilized society.

Which brings us to the question: What is Health? Health is not just the absence of

disease. It’s very hard to prove a negative. How do you demonstrate that something isn’t there?

Perhaps it’s there, but we can’t see it, or feel it, or perceive it.

Have you ever heard someone say, “Hey, did you hear about Charlie? He was in perfect

health. He’d never been to a doctor in his life. He suddenly got cancer and died.”

Suddenly? Suddenlygotcancer? Did someone send him an infected email or did he pick

it up from a toilet seat? No! Charlie’s cancer was the product of years of self-inflicted personal

abuse or neglect, lifestyle choices, and failure to monitor his own bodily functions (also to be

treated in a later chapter). Don’t let the tone of this paragraph infer that we feel Charliedeserved

to get sick and die. Certainly, that’s not our intent.

But there’s an important lesson that few people learn from the news of Charlie’s demise.

How many people will ask, “What was it about Charlie’s body that made it turn on itself and

devour his organs from the inside out?” That’s what cancer is. Cells in the body begin to grow

out of control, consume all available nutrients, and invade and crowd out organs, ultimately

destroying the body’s ability to maintain vital functions. Further, Charlie’s immune system—





which protects the body from the spread of these rogue cells when they occur and as they do

naturally in all of us—failed.

Did Charlie have any warning signs? Why didn’t his immune system protect him?

Well there were times Charlie felt a little down. He had some bad days when he just

didn’t have the get-up-and-go…but that happens to everyone from time to time. He was as

healthy as a horse!

Horses get sick and die, too. And, Yes, it seems that “that” happens to everyone from

time to time, but it’s not suppose to. That’s called dis-ease, the frequency and intensity of which

probably increased over time until Charlie had to make his very first trip to the doctor and

suddenlyhad cancer.

A depressed or inefficient immune system is also a disease state that has no symptoms

until it lets a cancer cell grow, or a virus or bacterium multiple and attach to—or attack—the

healthy cells of the body.

We cannever say we are healthy for sure, because theapparentabsence of disease is not

proof of health. However, there are things we can do to increase our chances of being as healthy

inside as we feel on the outside, assuming we feel healthy on the outside. This book provides

guidance; the advice given here is a safety belt for your wellbeing. The step-by-step guidelines

in the following chapters describe a technology for keeping us truly healthy until we’re struck by

a cosmic ray or our “number is up” or we’re called by an Almighty Being. Take your choice

depending on your personal belief.

There is ample medical and scientific evidence that the human body has no built in time-

to-die. If Galapagos tortoises can live to be two-hundred, why can’t we? Cells can renew

themselves almost indefinitely, if maintained in a biological environment associated with perfect





health. Unfortunately, “perfect” health is elusive. Impurities, toxic substances and disease-

inducing factors assault us each and every day. Our water, air and food supply are tainted, and

our lifestyles are stressful. This makes extreme extension of our lives, for all practical purposes,

impossible. But a healthy, productive and youthful life to One Hundred or More Years is well

within our grasp.





CHAPTER THREE – The First Step in Achieving Health: TENACITY

The optimum Cleanse, Detox & Rebuild (CDR) protocol lasts only twenty-three

days. It is usually required not more than once a year, but many of you have treated your

bodies as toxic waste-dumps for so long that you will be well advised to work through the

full program twice, six months apart, in the first year.

Before you begin any health regimen, you must betenaciousabout becoming healthy.

This may sound extremely simplistic, but it’s fundamental to all that follows. If you’re not

prepared to devote the time to change your life for the better, then don’t begin. That is, don’t

begin now. Yes—youcan find the right time. Here are some things to consider.

Do not begin your program-to-health by indulging in gluttony and over indulgence.

Don’t do it in October in anticipation of Thanksgiving through New Year’s binging. Remember

Peace on Earth usually gives you a bigger Piece on your Thighs. Also, do not begin a month

before you take that cruise-of-a-lifetime.

The best time to begin a health regimen, for most people, is early in the year as there are

few eating or drinking feasts until Easter/Passover in the spring.





Note #1: My apologies to those of other traditions, but this is not meant to be a study in

comparative religion.

Note #2: “Drinking” includes non-alcoholic specialties such as eggnog, diet and non-diet

sodas, caffeinated drinks and a few others. We’ll get to that in a later chapter.

Though February and March programs to health may cause you to have to pass on the

chocolate on Valentine’s Day and go sober on St. Patrick’s, that’s part of the “tenacity” to which

we refer. Sports “Fans”—short for Fanatics—have the added pressure asserted by the year-

round parties precipitated by Sunday afternoon regular season games. Playoff games and

Finals/Series/Bowls up the ante even further1

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The good news is that once the initial CDR is over, you will have so benefited by your

change of habits that you will no longer reflexively make visits to the refrigerator out of

boredom. You will eat less and eat healthier.

Further, you will be allowed to eat, drink and be merry, transgress on occasion, and even

pig-out when circumstances absolutely demand it. It won’t ruin everything, as long as the binges

are spread far enough apart and interspersed with healthy food choices.

At the end of the CDR you will feel so much better than you do now, that you will not

want to “ruin” it with marathon eating and drinking, even though your friends, associates and

perhaps even your family, will do all in their power to push you back to where you were. On the

one hand they will congratulate you on how great you look, praise your loss of weight, marvel at

the tone and texture of your skin and hair, and envy your general ambiance of health—on the

other hand, they will hand you a beer and a knockwurst. You will learn to hate everyone you

know. Prepare yourself for that.

1 If you look at the history, a good portion of the promotion of sports on television was enacted by the beer andsnack manufacturers. It’s big business and sports would not be as important in American culture as it is, if it weren’tfor the influences of those corporations that don’t give a damn about your health.





One last admonition: Do not hyper-binge the night before you start. If anything, try to

calm down your eating for several days in anticipation of the beginning of your healthy lifestyle

implementation. This will make the first few days of your Cleanse less challenging.

Step #0 – Finding the Time

• Get a calendar, preferably one that indicates your particular ethnic and religious celebrations.

• Draw a large “X” over each day on which some non-healthy eating and/or drinking may be

expected.

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Find a block of four weeks with no marked-out days. This is your target CDR period, and

will allow for the twenty-three day protocol plus a few extra days to calm-down before going

on the formal program.

• You may start on any day of the week; it does not have to begin on Monday; that’s entirely

up to you.

• Remember: don’t select a time period that ends the day before Thanksgiving or any other

festive (derived from the word “feast”) day.





CHAPTER FOUR – What are Toxins?2

We’ve already, flippantly, tossed around the word “toxin” and “toxic” and even called

you a “toxic waste-dump.” Part of CDR, the first step to establishing life-long and long-life

health, is the “D” for “Detox” short for “Detoxification”—the removal of the toxic substances

from your body. So what are toxins?

Toxins are substances that inhibit or harm normal, healthy operation of your body.

A note: just because science hasn’t discovered that a substance is harmful, doesn’t mean

that it’s not. At one time we didn’t know that the pesticide DDT was harmful—and not knowing

didn’t make it harmless3. However, for now, we feel that biological and medical science has

progressed sufficiently far to have fairly well classified most of the substances that are poisonous

to human health. This includes broad groupings of chemical compounds, such as pesticides in

general. If we can eliminate those from our bodies, and our future foods, we’ll be far better off.

2 This chapter may appear to go on for a while—perhaps even seem like a rant—but there’s some very importantinformation here. Please read it through. It’s part of your initiation.3 From the outset, there were those who objected to the introduction of artificial chemicals into our food supply. Didthey just make a lucky guess, or were they scholars?





Then we can work on avoiding the introduction of any new and unnecessary substances into our

diet.

The following is a list of the toxins and toxic substances which are present in our

environment. This list is not all-inclusive, but is meant to give you an idea of how pervasive the

assault on our health really is. The shame is that much of the attack on our wellbeing is the

product of economic greed and can be easily avoided with just a small hit to the profits of major

corporations—but that’s the subject of a different book.

Common toxins and toxic substances:

1. Heavy metals: mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead, iron and aluminum4

a. A more extensive list would include antimony, bismuth, cerium, chromium,

cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, manganese, nickel, platinum, silver, tellurium,

thallium, tin, uranium, vanadium, and zinc.

b. A few of these are necessary in trace amounts, such as manganese and zinc, but

can quickly become toxic if present in excess… and, yes, even iron can be toxic

in large amounts or in its improper form.

2. Chemicals: pesticides, preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, metabolic analogs such as

artificial sweeteners, food dyes, and even additives to our drinking water mandated by

our government such as chlorine and fluoride.

3. Biologicals: yeast, viruses, parasites, non-native bacteria.

4. Common foods and food additives that cause toxic reactions including allergies.

4 Aluminum, while not a “heavy” metal either chemically or intuitively, is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer’s aswell as other disease states.





The Concept of Toxic “Load”

Paracelsus (Born Phillip von Hohenheim in Switzerland, 1493-1541) is considered the

father of modern toxicology5. He stated, "All substances are poisons; there is none which is not

a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison…." This has been shortened, in modern times to

“The dose makes the poison.”

While one might be quick to question this observation, Wikipedia relates in a footnote to

their article on Paracelsus,

“J anuary 26, 2007: Dr. Adrian Cohen was saddened, but not surprised, to hear about the28-year-old woman who died earlier this month after drinking nearly two gallons of waterto try to win a radio station contest. (Wash Times).”

Even water, when consumed in excess, can overwhelm the body’s ability to process it.

The flip-side of this, of course, is that some substances arealways toxic, even in very

small quantities. The acceptable amount of mercury present in the body is zero, period. The

acceptable amount of lead in your blood is zero, period.

Yet, the United States government places the “acceptable” level of lead in your blood at

10 micrograms per deciliter: bear with us…

…that’s 10 billionths of a gram, a gram is 1/28th of an ounce—per 1/10th of a liter,

about 3-1/3rdounce—which calculates out to about three-one-hundred-millionths

of an ounce of lead per ounce of blood—that’s a very small amount indeed…

…but, just to continue a very long sentence… dramaticdecreases in IQ—a measure of

intelligence—in five year old children is associated with an increase of lead from 1 to 10

micrograms per deciliter, a range entirely within the “acceptable” limits permitted by big

brother6. A much longer sentence is the lifetime incarceration of the intellectual potential of

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those children exposed to lead in their infancy. The same effect has been reported in adult

exposure to lead.

Can anyone argue that there is “acceptable” exposure to this substance? We think not.

Thank you for your patience. This is the last technical tirade to which you will be

subjected, at least for a few chapters. The point has to be made. Here we’ve discussed just one

of the offending heavy metals, but there are many, as we’ve listed above, along with the other

toxins and toxic substances. Hundreds of studies all demonstrate the toxicity of substances that

have governmental “acceptable” limits.

YOU—You whose eyes are reading these pages—have to take responsibility for your

health. YOU have to avoid the ingestion of toxins. After all, YOU have complete control.

Not to exercise that control is analogous to not using your seat belt in your car. You may get

along for a while, but it will catch up to you when you least expect it. Remember Charlie?

Now that’s the good news. Are you ready for the bad news? The effect of ALL the

toxins you take in is cumulative. They add up.

Your body can “handle” and eliminate a certain amount of exposure to foreign

substances. That’s the job of your immune system, liver and excretory functions. “Handling,”

however, does not mean that toxins have no effect on you. When you have an “off” day—

irritable, fatigued, difficulty thinking or concentrating, sensitivity to sound, like your spouse’s

voice—you’re probably suffering from the cumulative effects of toxicity, even if you’ve not

pushed yourself into a diagnosable disease state.

Imagine a bucket with a spout at the bottom. You can keep pouring sludge into the top,

as long as the spout is open and sludge can flow out at the same or greater rate as you pour it in.

Lanphear, MD, director, Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center at the Cincinnati Children's HospitalMedical Center. Lanphear, B.Environmental Health Perspectives, Sept. 19, 2006







Concurrent with this tsunami of disease is the bastardization of our food supply. More and more

chemicals are being fed to us that were not part of our diet fifty years ago.

Here’s something to think about: our [the authors] mothers, now in their eighties, never

had PMS—and didn’t know anyone who had PMS—when they were young women. Were they

of healthier “stock,” or was it that in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, they were not as chemically

“battered” as women (and men) are today?

Certainly there were offenses previously; Upton Sinclair details abuses at the beginning

of the twentieth century in his classic The J ungle. But we had a few good decades with the

advent of the Food and Drug Administration and benevolent regulation. This was before the

bloodless coupe that put governmental control of our food supply into the hands of multi-

national agribusiness. In 2001—the beginning of the 21st century—the new administration in

Washington, doubled acceptable arsenic levels in our drinking water from those instituted by the

previous occupant of the White House.

In China, cows are being fed so much antibiotic that their milk cannot be used to produce

yogurt—the bacterial cultures won’t grow in it—and yet, for the sake of corporate profit , China

is supplying increasing amounts of our food, as opposed to our feeding ourselves. Wasn’t the

United States the “Food Basket” of the world at one time?

As of this writing, September 2007, dozens of food products from China, in the pet and

human food chain, have been found to be tainted by poisons—the no-acceptable-limit kind of

poisons. At this moment, while poultry cannot be imported from China for fear of bringing Bird

Flu to this country, our current President shook hands with the President of China, all but sealing

a deal that would allow American chickens to be shipped to China, processed there, and returned

to the United States for sale in our supermarkets. Oh, there’s more—from the “add insult to





injury” department—this same administration is pressing to have “country of origin” labeling

laws relaxed so that you’ll never know that your dinner had more frequent-flyer miles than you

do.

One more issue: the food we eat is not as nutritious as it used to be. Here’s an example:

Broccoli is a cruciferous vegetable; it’s supposed to contain lots of calcium. However, broccoli

grown in calcium-depleted soil doesn’t have lots of calcium, but it still looks and tastes like

broccoli. The same is true of any presumably mineral-rich vegetable or fruit. All minerals in

plants come from the soil in which they’re grown. Mineral rich soil produces mineral-laden

food, while veggies grown in soil that is poor in minerals still tastes bad to your kids, but isn’t

worth the fight to get them to eat it.





Summary

• Toxins are substances that disrupt the normal, healthy function of your body. They may be

elemental, chemical, biological, or a normal food that causes metabolic irritation.

• Toxins are present in the air we breathe, water we drink and food we eat… including the so-

called “healthy” foods; broccoli can be covered in pesticides, too.

• Toxic “load” is the cumulative effect of all the offending substances that you have ingested.

• Long before you reach your load-limit that causes external disease, the toxins start to impact

your immune system effectively lowering your limit; it’s a downward spiral.

• The government will not protect you by ensuring the cleanliness of your food9

.

• It is each person’s responsibility, and the responsibility of parents for their children, to act

intelligently with regard to what they eat, drink, and even breathe to protect and foster the

health of their bodies and minds.

9 This is not a political statement; while things have gotten much worse in the past few years, they were neverperfect, though things were moving—slowly—in the right direction before the current administration.





CHAPTER FIVE – Organic Foods

To make up for the ramblings of the last chapter, we’re going to do this one very to the

point: Eat Organic Food!

From the web site of IFOAM10, The International Forum of Organic Agricultural

Movements:

“The role of organic agriculture, whether in farming, processing, distribution, orconsumption, is to sustain and enhance the health of ecosystems and organisms from

the smallest in the soil to human beings. In particular, organic agriculture is intended toproduce high quality, nutritious food that contributes to preventive health care and well-being. In view of this it should avoid the use of fertilizers, pesticides, animal drugs andfood additives that may have adverse health effects.”

“Organic” is not just food grown without pesticides. For farming to be certified as

organic, it also has to adhere to a regimen of crop rotation, use crop residues, animal manures

and mechanical cultivation to maintain the productivity—nutritional content—of the soil.

Tillage supplies plant nutrients and controls weeds, insects and pests. Animals must be raised in

a caring environment and be free from antibiotics and hormones and be fed a diet healthy to the

animal.

10 http://www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/principles/index.html





Should you doubt that organic vegetable and animal products are healthier for people

than their non-certified counterparts, please read through IFOAM’s rather extensive website, and

we’re sure you’ll see the difference.

IFOAM: http://www.ifoam.org/

Summary

• Organic food supplies a significantly greater amount of nutrition than non-organic foods,

providing the full complement of minerals and vitamins in foods known to naturally have

high quantities of those nutrients.

• Organic food, void of pesticides, additives, hormones and antibiotics, does not contribute to

the toxic load in your system and, therefore, is essential to the elimination of the poisons in

your body.





CHAPTER SIX –Pee, Poop and Passing Gas

Diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes, is characterized by sugar being passed in the urine.

Originally, doctors would make their diagnosis by tasting, yestasting, the urine of a patient who

exhibited other symptoms of the disease. Sweetness in the urine would confirm the diagnosis.

Of course chemical methods have replaced this distasteful testing (we couldn’t resist), but

the example is given to raise your awareness that what comes out of your body can give you

precious insight into what’s going on inside—and what’s going in.

The theme of this book is getting control of your health through diet. Some of you may

find this topic indelicate, but looking at what comes out of you is a non-invasive and cost-free

way to get some control over your metabolism. We’ll take each of your excrements, liquid, solid

and gas in turn, and try not to belabor this any more than we have to.

Pee

Urine is the body’s way of getting rid of normal waste products, mostly nitrogen, from

your metabolism. Just as a burning wood produces light and heat—the job it’s supposed to do—





and leaves ash when it’s used up, so does metabolism leave byproducts. Many of these chemical

compounds are toxic to your body and must be eliminated quickly.

Your kidneys are responsible for filtering your blood, and they selectively remove those

chemicals harmful to you, most notably, urea11. Urea is always present in the blood and actually

has some positive metabolic effect when in low concentrations. However, it gets toxic very

quickly as levels rise. People with low or no kidney function require dialysis to remove urea

from their blood.

The kidneys also remove the excess quantities of some needed and neutral compounds.

We’ve all seen our urine change to deep yellow or orange after taking certain vitamins. You’re

literally peeing away surplus quantities of otherwise needed vitamins. Those of us who love

asparagus get to enjoy the wafting smell of asparaginewhen we pee. This non-essential amino

acid is abundant in the vegetable and passes through our kidneys to our bladder, in what seems

like just minutes after a meal.

Without the consumption of anything specific that might change the appearance of your

urine, it should be pale yellow in a healthy individual. Urine is an excellent way to monitor your

water intake.

Dehydration: When you are dehydrated, your urine will become dark yellow.

Dehydration, lacking water, doesn’t have to occur only after you’ve been out in the midday sun

or doing exercise. Your body is expelling water with every breath and this water has to be

replaced. If you go an entire day without drinking water, your urine will darken. Please note

that we’re speaking of water—not coffee or any caffeinated drink, not carbonated or sports

drinks, certainly not wine, beer or booze. Many of these, certainly caffeine and alcohol,

11 Urea’s chemical formula is (NH2)2CO – for a fairly small molecule, it’s got two Nitrogen atoms. Nitrogen, abyproduct of protein digestion, binds with other compounds in the body and is very toxic; that’s why there’s thiselaborate system for getting rid of it.





dehydrate you by making you pee more. It may look like you’re doing fine because your urine

will turn very pale as you pee away all your water without the benefit of removing toxins from

your blood as urine is intended to do, but it will catch up to you quickly enough.

Over-hydration: Except for the extreme case cited earlier, there is no pathology

associated with “normal” excess in drinking water for people with healthy kidneys and bladders.

Drinking water throughout the day is healthy. However, should your urine remain clear most of

the time, you may be washing vital, though invisible, nutrients from your body. You should

make sure you are eating healthy, vitamin and mineral rich foods.

Normal hydration: Increase water intake during outdoor summer activities, before,

during and after strenuous exercise, and when you’re in a dry climate. Again, your urine should

remain a pale yellow most of the time.

Poop

Poop—so much more of a fun word than feces—is how your body gets rid of what’s left

over after extracting all it can from your solid food consumption. Poop should be a brown, not

yellow and not black. Should either of these two latter conditions exist for a period of time,

certainly if you have concurrent pain or digestive issues, you should see a physician.

Poop gets much of its color from bile, a digestive enzyme produced by the liver and

stored in the gallbladder, that’s secreted into the duodenum—the first and smallest part of the

small intestine where most chemical digestion takes place. Bile aids in the emulsification,

digestion and absorption of fats.

Most of the information you get from your poop will be gleaned from its texture and its

smell. Briefly, poop should be well formed and soft-ish. It should not be like a day at the beach,





all sand and water, nor should you be like a pirate ship firing hard little canon balls at the

Spanish Armada.

Too hard, and you may be dehydrated or borderline constipated. Too soft, and you could

be eating too much fat, getting too much soluble fiber, or you may not have sufficient quantities

of friendly bacteria in your bowels to properly digest your food. We’ll speak about how to deal

with these issues later on. Right now we’re discussing how to monitor the state of your

digestion.

Bathroom smells have long been the fodder for teenagers and sophomoric comedies.

This exploration of poop will include the smell of gas, whether passed with, or exclusive of a

bowel movement.

While some smell is inevitable, if you leave the bathroom unusable by someone else,

you’ve got a problem. Barring pathology, diet can quickly, within a week, eliminate the issue.

Again, you may think it funny, but improper digestion that results in terrible odors means you’re

not getting the nutrition from your food. This can lead to other health issues. In the worst case

scenario, smell can indicate that you’re permitting undigested food to linger in your bowels.

This allows toxins produced by normal and opportunistic bacteria to accumulate and can lead to

serious disease, including, but not limited to, cancer. Suddenly, it’s not so funny.

How to combat severe bowel odors

If you’re a meat and potatoes kind of person, get some vegetables and fruit into your diet.

An exclusively protein and starch diet will cause an unhealthy mix of bacteria in your bowels to

flourish.





If you like to have a big, cold glass of milk with every meal, including your steak and

potatoes… don’t. Dairy products and meat protein are digested differently. Meat relies heavily

on acid hydrolysis, that is, stomach acids break down protein into small pieces that can be further

digested by enzymes. Dairy—milk—is alkaline. It neutralizes the acid in the stomach. While

the stomach can fight back by producing more acid, sipping that cold milkshake while eating

your triple-decker hamburger turns out to be a losing battle for meat-protein digestion.

Meanwhile, the over-production of acid interferes with the enzymatic digestion of the milk

products. It’s a lose-lose scenario.

There are those, even in the medical community, that might dispute some of the fine

points of this analysis. Again, as stated early on in this book, we’re trying to avoid too much of

the biology and chemistry except where little smatterings give you some perspective. If you

doubt, conduct a poll. Next Christmas, when you walk into the bathroom after Cousin Harry has

used it and you find the wallpaper peeling off, watch how he’s the one sipping the glass of milk

while enjoying the spiral-cut ham.

Rather than belabor this point, the main message you should glean from this discussion is

that horrid bathroom smell is not normal. It is a sign of digestive issues that, if left unresolved

for long periods of time, can cause you to “suddenly” get a serious disease later in life.

Passing Gas

We’ve already discussed bathroom smell. Gas just passes along bowel smell. Their main

advantage is that you can disrupt normal activity in any room of the house or anywhere in public.

The only thing to add is a point about flatulence, that is, frequent passing of gas. Bowel

gas is a result of one of two activities. Bacteria in the large intestine—the bowel—produce gas,





mostly methane, from bowel content. Most of all, these bacteria love sugar. If you eat a lot of

sugar, or just a large quantity at one sitting, some sugar can make its way past the stomach and

into the intestines where the bacteria have a field day. If you are paying attention, you will

notice that your gassiest episodes will occur after binging on ice cream. Again, a properly

balanced diet, which does not necessarily exclude ice cream or other sweets, should balance

bowel flora and minimize gas. Like some of the poop issues, re-establishing a population of the

“good” bacteria in your system will also reduce flatulence.

The second cause of gas can be swallowed air. Digestion begins in the mouth. If you

tend to shovel food in your mouth, gulping air and only half-chewing, in addition to allowing

more sugar to pass through to your intestines, you will also push air through your stomach which

will be carried along until it has only one way out. Most of the oxygen is absorbed as it goes

through the intestines, leaving Nitrogen (again), though as a gas, nitrogen is not toxic, almost

4/5ths of the air we breathe is nitrogen.

Summary

• Monitor the color of your urine to ensure proper water balance in your body.

• You don’t have to touch your poop to “feel” its texture and determine if dietary changes are

required to bring you back in balance.

• Bathroom smell isn’t funny. Terrible bathroom odor is a sure sign that you have digestive

issues which should be addressed before disease takes hold.

• Digestive issues can be easily addressed through changes in diet.

• Flatulence and smelly gas are signals that you are not eating well, not digesting well and/or

overindulging in self-destructive eating patterns.





CHAPTER SEVEN –Detoxification, Nutrition, and Weight Loss

We’ve repeated several times that this diet is about health and that health will lead to

weight loss. Let’s discuss this in more detail.

When your body accumulates toxins, it knows they are there. In the body’s attempt to

neutralize the effects of these chemicals, unable to expel them, it encapsulates these foreign

substances in fat cells and other tissues of the body. It then tries to dilute the impurity, adding

water and swelling cells to their capacity. This manifests, on the outside, as cellulite, a big belly

and a large butt. Detoxification removes the reason these cells are swollen and you will begin to

lose weight automatically. Many people comment that they feel less “bloated” within a few days

of beginning this diet. Yes, it may be as simple as that.

Further, during the CDR program, you will be required to remove foods from your diet

that, in all likelihood, are causing subclinical inflammation and allergic reactions in your body.

Many of these foods are high in fat and calories. You’re going to be on a much lower calorie

intake.





It’s All About The Calories

Some diets change your metabolism by manipulating your foods. The most severe of the

low-carbohydrate diets does exactly that. It causes your energy generating system to discard

some of your calories before they’re used. It does this by putting you intoketosiswhereby you

pee away some calories in the form of ketones, a metabolic intermediary. This might seem like a

great trick to play on your system, but ketosis can be risky. Your kidneys weren’t designed to

take this abuse for long periods of time. More—because redirecting your metabolism into

ketosis takes several days to “gear-up,” even a single transgression—perhaps a meatball,

pepperoni and mushroom transgression—will set you back, disrupting the metabolic processes

that cause weight-loss or weight-stabilization and put you back in a weight-gain mode. It’s for

this reason that people who swear that they love the low-carb diet find it necessary to go on it

several times a year.

Health rule #3: Numerous studies around the world have linked longevity—longlife—with stable weight. To state it the opposite way, your life expectancy is reduced if you are constantly fighting your weight, if your weight goes up and down. Putting onten pounds during the year with the expectation of low-carbing it off just before Thanksgiving, is a long-term formula for disaster.

Ultimately, it’s about the calories. Take in a little less, and burn a little more, and you

can begin to lose weight—and be much healthier—almost immediately. Can you reduce your

intake of calories so that you lose just one ounce a day, on average? Your scale won’t even

register that small amount, but if you set that very simple goal, you will lose almost twenty-

three pounds in a year. Consider the several pounds you won’t gain that you normally would

have, and you’ve accomplished something significant.

Of course, the most important part of two sentences ago is “on average.” Your weight

will vary day to day due to differences in your water retention, bowel content, and that piece of





Aunt Freda’s birthday cake that was just too good to pass up. But every sixteen days, you should

be one pound lighter—about two pounds a month. That’s all.

The best use of this information is to bring to light—more like hit you in the face—with

the reality that a double-cheeseburger with fries at 1,000+calories does a lot more damage to

your weight-control objectives than you might have originally thought. It could set your

objectives back a week or more.

Health rule #4: Long-term health that includes weight control requires personalresponsibility

Here’s what you have to do:

1. Eat less of those foods that are highest in calorie content—the worst offenders.

2. Get some exercise—any exercise—just get up and move—a little—please.

Getting healthy, as a strategy for weight loss, puts you in concert with your body—you’re

working with it, not against it. As your body gets healthier, it wants to shed excess fat, which

doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll get skinny. Your weight will drop to a level where it is not

affecting how you move, how you feel and how you live. It improves your quality of life.

Won’t I Be Hungry?

No. There are many reasons for that feeling you call “hunger.” It has been clinically

demonstrated that many people confuse thirst with hunger. The next time you get hungry in the

middle of the day, that is, sometime other than a normal meal hour, try drinking an eight ounce

glass of water. Then wait at least fifteen minutes. You will find that most of the time your

“hunger” will go away and you’ve just saved yourself 100, 300, or 500 empty and unnecessary

calories. Ever hear the expression that half an hour after Chinese food, you feel like eating





again? That’s not hunger. Chinese food, at least in the form served in America, is very high in

salt. You get very thirsty a half hour later and your “hunger” should be satisfied with water.

Another common sensation that many people confuse with hunger is stomach irritation.

How many times have you—or the proverbial someone you know—been on an eating and

drinking binge and then woke up the next morning “hungry.”

“Gotta eat something to absorb all that alcohol I drank last night,” is the common excuse.

But it just isn’t so. The booze is long gone. What you’ve done is to irritate the lining of your

stomach and perhaps your esophagus as well. The best thing to counter that irritation is to eat a

small portion of something bland. Small & Bland! That will give you the sensation of

something in your stomach, quench the psychological urge to eat, and not further abuse your

gastrointestinal tract.

Another cause of faux-hunger is an allergy to some food you’ve eaten. Many people, due

to the ubiquitous nature of wheat in foods, have developed a subclinical allergy to wheat gluten.

Same situation with corn and corn by-products like high-fructose corn syrup. The consumption

of even a small amount can set you on a quest to devour everything in the house. Try this: don’t

have anything with gluten or corn at breakfast. You will most likely find that you’re not as

hungry for lunch as you usually are, and certainly your hunger-alarm won’t go off as early in the

day as it normally does. And the worst thing you can do is to head for the vending machine to

get a candy bar—sugar is a major offender that will set your blood sugar levels into chaos and

make conforming to a healthy eating regimen that much more difficult.

No discussion of false hunger would be complete without a mention of the psychological

basis for even mildly compulsive eating. Boredom, stress, and other emotional factors can all





drive you to the refrigerator. That’s the hardest to overcome, and we’ll touch on that in a later

chapter.

Now to answer the question, “Won’t I be hungry?” The answer is still “No.” In

designing the CDR program, attention has been given to one of the greatest driving forces in the

compulsion to eat. This might soundavant garde, but there are times you may feel hungry

because you’re hungry.

“Wow,” you say, “these people really know their stuff!”

Ah, but there’s an underlying science to the “Theory of Actual Hunger.” Have you ever

finished a nice-sized meal, even an extremely unhealthy one that should have provided you with

all the sensory—even sensual—delights of consuming salty, fatty, sweet and sour… yummy—

but you still have the desire for more. “Let’s see the dessert menu,” you request—no—demand!

First, you should wait fifteen or twenty minutes to allow your body to fully process the

food you’ve eaten. The hunger may go away.

If that doesn’t work, consider this: perhaps, even though you’ve eaten a lot of chewable,

tasty stuff, your body is still lacking one or more vitamins, minerals, or other mandatory

nutritional factors, the need for which keeps your hunger-alarm going. Have you ever had a red

light appear on the dashboard of your car. You fill up the gas, you add oil, perhaps you even top

off the transmission fluid—the red light is still on! What do you do? Do you put in more

gasoline or more oil? No! Maybe there’s something else, something you rarely check because

you need so little of it. Power steering fluid? Brake fluid? Might these be essential?

It’s the same with your body. There are some essential nutrients that are required in very

small quantities, the lack of which will confuse your hunger-sensors and set you on an eating





binge. However, if you weren’t getting these before, it’s likely you won’t seek new foods, or

even new supplements that might include the missing factor and break your hunger cycle.

The most effective way to properly control appetite is through complete nutrition. This

includes a range of proteins, vitamins, cofactors, minerals, anappropriateamount of fats or oils,

and a small, reasonable quantity of healthy carbohydrates.

This is not a low-carb diet. Carbohydrates, most commonly bread and pasta, are okay as

long as you’re not allergic to gluten, and if you are, you can still have rice or other gluten-free

carbs—in quantity—if you wish. These carbohydrates should have a low glycemic index—more

about this in the next section.

This isa full-nutrition diet. You will not be hungry because your body will not be

demanding anything. It may seem hard to imagine, but we’ve been there personally and we were

just as amazed as you will be when you try it.

What makes this the hardest diet in the world? It’s the socialization. For about four

weeks, you won’t be able to participate in Happy Hour, you’ll have to keep caffeine

consumption to a minimum—best to none—and certainly no alcohol at all. Ethnic foods are off

the menu for that time. No Chinese, no Italian, no Mexican, no Jewish, no Polish—it’s a white

supremacist’s dream come true.

At the end of the regimen, you’ll feel great, people will tell you that you look great, your

hunger will be in control, you’ll be accustomed to smaller—not necessarily small, just smaller—

portions at meals, and you’ll learn, just as we did to our surprise, to genuinely enjoy foods you

used to take great pains to avoid. And you’ll keep some of those new habits even when you’re

able to eat those other foods again. You’ll make compromises with yourself, allowing just one

or two evenings of your old habits, but keep to a full-nutrition diet the other five days. You’ll





keep the pounds off and probably continue to lose a few more. You’ll have more energy, need

less sleep, and be more responsive to your family and the special people in your life. You’ll

exercise more because it won’t hurt to move. Your weight will stay consistent until the Holidays

when you’ll blow it all off and gain only a few pounds, because you will still exercise some

restraint. Then you’ll go on the diet again, more for the cleanse portion than anything else. Just

a few weeks and you will be set for another year. Each year will roll by with those around you

getting older and fatter, but you’ll be staying on top of your game. Your weight will always be

the same on December 31st as it was on January 1st, unless, of course, you’ve taken off a few

more pounds.

The Glycemic Index

It’s important to know that all carbohydrates are not the same. Some have a greater

effect on your blood sugar and insulin levels—important factors in how “hungry” you get. Carbs

with a low-index do not cause large fluctuations in blood sugar; these are good. High-index

carbs, those that have a greater effect, conflict with long-term healthy eating and weight stability.

Boiled white rice, for example, has about half the Glycemic Index rating as boiled white potato.

Keep this in mind when you prepare meals. Sure you can have potato, but not at every

meal; have more low-index carbs that high-index carbs during the week and you’ll be closer to

reaching your health goals. Lists of foods and their Glycemic Indices are available in books and

all over the web.

* * *

So… Do you think it’s time to dig in and discuss what you have to do? Are you ready?

Here we go!





CHAPTER EIGHT – Preparing for Detoxification

The two major causes of un-health are chronic, subclinical allergies and chronic,

subclinical inflammation. Let’s look at those terms. Chronic means that it’s with you all the

time. The opposite extreme would be anacutereaction. An acute allergic reaction would

include a reaction to peanuts or shell fish that closes down your throat, or, less life threatening,

the swelling of your eyes and sneezing when exposed to cat hair. These reactions subside when

you are removed from the allergen—the substance that induces an allergic reaction. Acute

inflammations, of course, are those reactions normally associated with an infection, a bacterial

infection around a cut, or the redness of your throat when you have Strep.

Chronic disease, inflammation or allergy, is not, by definition, immediately life

threatening. But they do reduce your quality of life and ultimately, shorten the length of life as

these reactions are signs that your immune system has been made less effective. Those with

chronic conditions are more susceptible to the onset of acute diseases including diseases





unrelated to the chronic condition. In short, if you deal with chronic disease effectively, your

body will be more protected from those factors that cause acute disease.

Sensitivities and Allergies

It is possible for your body to be sensitive or allergic to almost anything. These

conditions can arise at any time in your life. Babies, toddlers, preteens, adolescents, young

adults and mature individuals can all develop a new allergy to something they may have been

exposed to throughout their lives.

Sensitivities are the immune system’s way of alerting you to an imbalance in your body

caused by some substance to which you have been exposed through your food, drink or the air

you’ve breathed. You can also be sensitive to substances with which you’ve come into skin

contact. Sensitivities manifest as headaches, itching, feeling of tiredness after a meal, bloating

and gas, irritability or hyper-behavior, stomach upset or other discomforts. If caused by food,

these sensations may be most pronounced immediately after eating.

Allergies are your immune system’s over-reaction to the presence of a substance. It has

been found that there are some allergens that are more-allergic than others.

Cat dander produces reactions in more individuals and stronger reactions in those

individuals than almost any other allergy causing substance. Among foods, peanuts and corn are

just about the most “allergy-causing”—the correct word is allergenic—to be found. For this

reason, people who suffer from severe systemic allergies—allergies that effect their entire

bodies—such as asthma, are generally advised to avoid being in places with cats, and, should not

eat highly allergenic foods, such as peanuts. This is advised—or should be—even if no direct

allergic reaction has been observed to cats and peanuts.





Inflammation

Like allergies, inflammation is the result of your immune system responding to some

stimulus. Inflammation around the site of an infection is the immune system’s response to

bacteria and viruses that have penetrated the skin. Antigens, like allergens, are the substance to

which your body responds. The immune system sends a variety of types of cells and proteins to

the site of the infections and the potentially disease causing organisms are destroyed and

disposed.

Arthritis is an inflammation. Chronic sinus issues are the product of chronic

inflammation. Many more of the annoying and debilitating challenges we face are the product of

inflammation in the body. These are the things that you have often been told to “just live with.”

Inflammation can be an adjunct to an allergy, or it can be auto-immune, that is, an

immune reaction to yourself as opposed to a reaction to an invading bacteria. Such is the case

with arthritis.

Yeast, Bacteria and Parasites

These living pests exist everywhere in nature. All animals, including humans, are

covered in microscopic organisms. Many are essential to our health. On our skin, they protect

us from more harmful, opportunistic organisms that can infect us. In our gut, there are a host of

helpful bacteria that digest our food and release nutrients that we need and which we can absorb.

Simply stated, they cannot be avoided.

However, through improper nutrition, these pests will begin to multiply to a point that

they endanger our health instead of support it. Too much refined sugar in our diet will encourage

the growth of yeast until it severely impacts our day-to-day lives. Have you ever just been itchy





for no apparent reason? That could very well be the yeast in your system. Yeast and parasites

can also cause mood swings and has been implicated as a causative factor in ADD/ADHD.

Bacteria of the wrong kind, along with microscopic parasites, can overwhelm the bowel,

causing digestive problems, malaise and some of the issues we discussed earlier.

The Detox phase of the diet won’t eliminate these organisms, but will reduce their affect

on your toxic-load.

* * *

You live in a world in which you are barraged with allergens, toxins and micro-

organisms at every moment of every day. Your challenged by the fact that you cannot possibly

know to which foods and environmental factors you are allergic. There is no way to determine

which things you eat stimulate inflammation in your body. Fortunately, some excellent research

has been done, so the most offensive substances are known. These are the things that are most

commonly found to be causes of dis-ease in individuals who have been subjected to extensive

testing.

Where to Begin?

The first step is to remove ALL the highest profile allergens, inflammants and toxins

from your environment and diet as best you can. You may not be able to remove them all, but

don’t cheat. Remove what you can and certainly don’t add to your toxic-load while trying to

detox, that is, don’t get a new cat, even if you already have one or more, until after you’ve

detoxified.

You want to prepare your body for detoxification by first removing the new incoming

assaults on your organs, cells and immune system. To this end, you should closely adhere to the





food restrictions of the list below, and eat only those foods indicated as permissible. This will

clean you out and open the channels needed to allow the toxins stored in your body to flow out

of your system in phase two.

Remember: The first phase lasts just six days. It is not a list of life-long restrictions.

You’ll be back to pizza and ice cream in a less than a month. However, a little precaution now,

and some moderation later, will keep you enjoying these foods, on occasion, for decades to

come.

You will prepare your body for six days by avoiding foods on the list in Chapter Ten. To

guarantee that you are getting sufficient minerals and vitamins, you must also take supplements.





CHAPTER NINE – Find Someone Who Knows What She/He is Doing

In the next chapter we’re going to tell you specifically what you can and can’t eat, but

you will also need supplements and activators. Supplements ensure that you’re getting enough

vitamins, essential minerals and cofactors to ensure a healthy body environment and prevent you

from being hungry. Activators are herbs and glandulars that facilitate the three-step process of

Cleanse, Detox and Rebuild.

• Cleanseprepares your body for Detox in six days. It’s the period where you stop eating,

drinking and subjecting yourself to substances that cause allergic reactions and the

inflammation due to sensitivities. Cleanse lasts t a week to ten days, and permits your

body to rest from the ongoing assault and allow your liver, adrenal glands and immune

system to marshal strength.

• Detox is the purge of the toxins in your body. Detox is ten days. We’ve discussed these,

which include heavy metals, foreign hormones, drugs (antibiotics and others) that you

didn’t know you were “taking” through the food you were eating. You will also





eliminate bacteria, yeast, viruses and parasites that are harmful. It’s not a 100% purge.

Some of these take years to totally eliminate—they took years to accumulate—but you’ll

be reducing the amount in your system well below your “toxic load” limit.

• Rebuild lasts seven days and facilitates and accelerates the repair of what has been done

to your body on the macro-level (losing weight, toning skin) and the micro-level (the

repair of organs and tissues). Rebuild can be extended as long as you’d like.

While the list of foods is easy, it’s more difficult to give you a list of what supplements and

activators to take because of the wide variety of combinations and brands available. Under no

circumstance should you make purchases at a warehouse store or buy generic store-brand

vitamins or supplements. There’s a reason why they are so cheap… excuse us… inexpensive.

There is definitely a difference in the quality of vitamins—B-complex is not just B-complex—

it’s NOT just all the same.

That’s why you must find a knowledgeable owner or manager of a health store in your

area. That may not be the eighteen-year-old with a nose ring behind the counter at the mall’s

chain-store—though it could be, we won’t completely prejudge. But more likely it’s the

neighborhood shop that’s been in business for years and has a long-time employee who

understands the products on the shelves and can guide you, and certainly make things less

overwhelming. These people will give you the full benefit of their considerable experience and

expertise once they know that you are serious about your health.

Most herbs come in combinations that work synergistically together, so simply ask for

assistance and look for some of the listed herbs on the labels. For example: a good adrenal





support combination product may include some or even all of the herbs on the chart below, plus

added vitamins/minerals that also support adrenal function.

The most important aspect of supplementation is to acquire those products that support

your Adrenal glands, Liver, Colon and provide nutritional support though digestive and

proteolytic enzymes.

In addition to a quality vitamin/mineral supplement, the following should be sought:

Supplements and Act ivators for Organ and Gland SupportAdrenal Support:

1. Licorice Root (do not take with high blood

pressure or if diabetic)2. Saffron3. Chinese asparagus root4. Siberian ginseng

Colon Support:1. Slippery elm

2. Psyllium husks3. Marshmallow4. Peppermint leaf 5. Cascara sagrada6. Activated charcoal (food grade)

Liver Support:1. Milk thistle2. Dandelion root3. Turmeric (do not take if you have

gallstones or jaundice)4. Bupleurum

A good digestive/proteolytic enzyme1. Whole leaf aloe2. Alfalfa3. Ginger4. Papaya

• Ask for a “between meal” drink that has high bio-available nutrition. Add a WHEY proteinsupplement. This should be made from rice. Neither should contain any form of sugar. Add

STEVIA for sweetness.• For Candida/Yeast, ask for caprylic acid or grapefruit seed. Follow the directions on the

manufacturer’s directions.

• For Heavy Metals, get a good chlorophyll, and follow the manufacturer’s directions.

Should you still need assistance, please visit our web site, specifically this page:

http://www.NatOpt.com/CDR for information about the convenient, pre-packaged, all-in-one,

CDR program.


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CHAPTER TEN – C D R

It is very important that you eat only the foods we’ve specified below, and completely

avoid the foods that can cause allergic or inflammatory responses.

Food and drink that you cannot have:

• Alcohol, caffeine, and drinks containing sugar and artificial sweeteners. This

includes all sweeteners no matter how “natural” they claim to be.

• Avoid all foods with refined sugar including refined sugar.

• No gluten—look for “Gluten Free” on the package. Wheat, rye, oat and barley

contain gluten, so all foods containing these grains—most notably bread and

pasta—are to be avoided.

• No dairy, period. Eggs are okay in the first phase of your detox.

• Avoid corn and tomato sauces, foods high in fat and oil, refined oils, shortenings,

margarine and other butter substitutes.

• No peanuts. Duh!

• Miscellaneous: No pork products, processed meats (hotdogs, sausages), or shell

fish.





• Certainly avoid anything else, not mentioned here, to which to know you have an

allergy or any kind of reaction. What kind of reaction? “Gee, it seems whenever

I eat a lot of ____, I want to just lie down and go to sleep.” That kind of reaction.

• Reduce salt as much as is possible (though this is not a salt-free diet) and use

Celtic sea salt when you do.

• NO hydrogenated fats or oils (Read the labels!)

You will abstain from these foods for the duration of the diet.

You should drink a gallon of water a day, sipped in portions of several ounces each

throughout the day. No chlorinated or fluorinated water, that is, avoid tap water.

You are permitted to eat:

• Vegetables, fruits and melon—though fruits and melon will be avoided in the

second phase to cut down on your sugar consumption.

• Nuts, not peanuts (double DUH!), but almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts, walnuts and

pecans are all acceptable. Acceptable are sugar-free, organic nut butters, i.e.,

almond butter.

• Fish, chicken and turkey can be eaten for protein, though fowl should be skinless.

Lean, lean beef is also okay. Remember: no pork.

• Olive oil for cooking and salads. No corn, canola, etc.

• Rice and buckwheat, that is, non-gluten containing grains can be eaten.





• Ezekiel bread is gluten-free bread made from sprouted grains and can be used

throughout the diet as a bread substitute for sandwiches, etc.12

• Caffeine-free coffee and tea—green and herb tea—and clean drinking water.

• Have as much sex as you can handle13.

* * *

The Cleanse

For the first six days, conform to the diet as specified above. This will prepare your

body, “loosening” things up and opening channels for the excretion and elimination of those

substances during Detox. Supplement with:

• A full-spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement

• Omega-3 fish oil supplement

• Acidophilus supplement

• You can eat as much as you’d like of lean protein and vegetables, and a moderate amount

of nuts and non-gluten grains/bread. Salads are okay, whole tomatoes included.

• Reserve fruits and melon for deserts, having just a small portion due to the sugar content

of these foods.

* * *

The Detox

For the subsequent ten days you will actually eliminating the toxins and inflammants

from your system. Yeast and harmful bacteria will also be reduced or eliminated—certainly

brought within your body’s tolerance and ability to deal with them.

Adhere to the diet, excluding the fruits and melons:

12 Personal note—it takes a little getting used to, but it’s not that bad. Give it a chance.13 Subject to the approval of your doctor and your partner, of course.





• Eat lean protein, vegetables, nuts, etc., as in the Cleanse.

• Follow the supplement regimin specified in the Table on page 46: Supplements and

Activators for Organ and Gland Support

* * *

The Rebuild

For the following seven days you will be eating a healthy diet that will allow your body

to restore cells, tissues and organs to health. Obviously, in just a week or so, you won’t be made

to look and feel like twenty, unless, of course, you are twenty. But this extra time allows your

body to “gear up” for youthful cell production.

Stick to the food list. You may add fruit and melon, conservatively, back to your diet.

• Lean protein, vegetables, nuts, fruit, etc.

• Vitamin/Minerals

• Omega-3 oil

• Acidophilus





CHAPTER EL EVEN – Catching your breath

If you’re reading this book through for the first time, as you were instructed to do, you

will be in either one of these two mindsets:

1. “I can do this,” another version of which is “I gotta do this.” Good. Truth is, there’s no

one that loves bread and pasta and pizza and rib-sauce–did I mention bread?—more than

I do. But I did this and felt a whole world of better, my flexibility was increased, my

energy levels came up, and I lost ten pounds in phase one and kept it off long after I

ended the formal diet.

—or, perhaps you’re thinking—

2. “These people are nuts!” If this is the case, then you must be reading the wrong book.

This is for the benefit of people who want to get healthy and in the process they want to

lose weight, increase their energy levels and live longer. You really wanted to read

Grandma Hazel’s 101 Ways to Chicken Fry Steak. Yeah, I know, the covers look a lot

alike.





Some Perspective

By the end of the Cleanse, you’ll notice a big difference in your eating habits. You won’t

be eating portions as large as you used to. Perhaps it’s because you’re not as enamored with the

selection of foods from which you have to choose. That’s okay, too. You’re developing new

habits while suffering through this phase of the plan.

We don’t pretend that this is easy or that you’ll be satisfied with the rather narrow meal

selections. Each one of you, assuming you are an adult, has, at one time or another, had to

endure unpleasant surroundings, an intolerable high school or college professor for a semester,

wear a cast on a broken arm for weeks, or perhaps suffer through boot-camp in preparation for

military service. It’s just four weeks. You can do it.

You will soon see the difference in the fit of your clothes, the cleanliness and smell of

your body, and the clearness of your lungs; you will breathe more deeply and more clearly than

you have in a long time. Your sinuses will suddenly feel open and smells—especially your

neighbor’s bar-b-que—will have more texture. Whoops. Well, it’s true, and you’re less than a

month away from enjoying the foods you really love again, and they will have more flavor than

you remember.

However, there is one issue that we must discuss with you—the Healing Crisis.





CHAPTER TWEL VE – The Healing Crisis

You are a toxic waste-dump. We’ve said that before. It isn’t possible to empty a toxic

waste-dump without the use of heavy machinery. The Cleanse phase is often accompanied by a

period where you feel like absolute crap. And when we say “often,” consider it a certainty.

The symptoms might be physical or psychological:

• Malaise, tiredness, fatigue, need to sleep all the time

• Headache—especially for caffeine addicts—or dizziness

• Mild stomach upset or periods of nausea

• Aches in extremities

• Irritability or irrationality

• Anger, easily provoked

Drink lots of pure, clean, non-chlorinated and non-fluorinated water. This helps reduce

the severity and duration of the healing crisis. You should be drinking about a gallon of water a

day, sipped in portions of several ounces each throughout the day.

It’s highly unlikely that you will experience all of these. Usually, in any individual, the

healing crisis manifests as just one primary with a lesser secondary symptom. This lasts about





three to four days starting anywhere from the second to fifth day of the diet. Some women have

remarked that it is not unlike PMS.

Be prepared for it. It will happen. It’s great for sympathy. Use it.

Caution: If the symptoms become extreme, to the point that you feel that they are beyond

anything you’d reasonably expect to endure for the sake of a diet, abandon the diet. Don’t go

crazy, but reintroduce some regular food, eat a normal meal—don’t gorge yourself—and make

sure you drink lots of water. This is a diet to live by, not to torture yourself. But just realize:

• If you’ve ever put up with morning sickness and all the other myriad discomforts for the sake

of having a baby (this mostly for women), or if you’ve ever put up with a pregnant woman

for the sake of having a baby (this mostly for men), or;

• If you’ve ever been totally hung-over with all the associated morning-after torments for the

sake of a great night out with the boys (this mostly for men), or you’ve ever put up with the

drunken slob that crawls in the house in the middle of the night (this mostly for women),

then;

You’re already willing to make sacrifices for something or someone that’s important to you.

You should be willing to tolerate some short-term discomfort for the sake of your long-term

health.





CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Conclusion

Throughout this book we’ve dropped hints about how you might approach some of the

mental challenges in attaining health at the expense of your lifestyle up to now. Each of us lie

somewhere on the continuum between just not knowing how eating affects health and weight on

the one hand, and just not caring on the other. There’s also the possibility—perhaps a

probability—that you had a general idea, but were not willing to make the sacrifices—bite the

bullet instead of the burger—to move yourself toward the end of the spectrum where the healthy

people are.

Food is an all-pervasive part of our culture. Holidays are Feast-ivals. We eat when we’re

happy, we eat when we’re stressed, we eat when we’re depressed, and we eat when we’re bored.

It’s clichéd, so we won’t spend much more time on that dimension of the dietary challenge of

American life.





Good News & Bad News

First the bad news. It’s hard. It’s real hard to get healthy. I’m not going to try to

convince you that there won’t be some salivary-satisfaction missing from the food choices

proscribed in this book.

Also, because the chemical and biological assault on our bodies by way of our food

supply is ongoing, even if we attempt to eat only organic food, it is advised that you go on the

program at least once a year.

But the Good news is that:

• It’s a short-term protocol

• You’ll feel results very quickly

• The diet is self-fulfilling, that is, you will be less hungry and you will have fewer

cravings, if any, than you have had on any other diet you’ve ever tried. Staying on the

diet will not be as difficult as you anticipate.

• If you choose to begin a program of exercise, mild or more concerted, you will find that

you have greater energy, you’re more flexible, and your lungs are more efficient.14 This,

too, will accelerate your weight loss, if that’s a primary impetus to your engaging in this

program.

• Mental acuity will be heightened, stress levels will reduce—even in the presence of the

same external circumstances—and you will be much slower to anger.

• You will just feel better than you have in a very long time—and think how that will effect

your interaction with your family, friends and coworkers.

14 Always begin any exercise program gradually and do not over-do right out of the gate. A proper physician’sexamination is always recommended.





In short, with so much to gain, and only a little over a month’s hedonistic pleasure to be

sacrificed, why would you not push the limit of your willpower to prove to yourself, and those

around you, that you can regain control of your life. Remember, it’s not just the weight-loss that

we advocate; it’s the overall improvement of your standard of living, quality and quantity of your

life, and the enhancement of your well-being that we advocate.





ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Special thanks to Phyllis Marks, attorney and former Registered Nurse, who was

instrumental in the preparation of this manuscript. She is a principal and partner with Alison

Ader in Natural Health Options, Inc. which sponsored this text.

Ms. Marks has also authored “Live Cadaver: The True Story of Kellee Kendell and

Scandalous Treachery Within the Medical Community,” which details the abuse of a woman and

subsequent malpractice suit in which Ms. Marks was the attorney for Ms. Kendell. It’s a must-

read for all women that have been told they must go under-the-knife due to issues with their

reproductive systems. Know before you Go!

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